Violette verdy biography of william shakespeare
Violette Verdy, a French-born ballerina who became one of New York City Ballet's most acclaimed stars by bringing her deep musicality..
In a Shakespeare special, New York City Ballet principals Violette Verdy and Jacques d'Amboise danced the title characters in Romeo and.
A leading ballerina of the twentieth century, Distinguished Professor Violette Verdy was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for twenty years and performed as a guest principal artist with major companies in America and Europe, such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York; the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden; the Paris Opera Ballet; and the Stuttgart, Munich, and Hamburg Ballets.
During her career, she premiered the title role in Birgit Culberg’s Miss Julie at American Ballet Theater, and upon joining New York City Ballet, George Balanchine created many roles for her, including ones in Liebeslieder Walzer, Episodes, Jewels, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Glinkaiana, Sonatine, La Source, Pulcinella, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Jerome Robbins also crafted roles for Verdy in Dances at a Gathering, In the Night and Beethoven Pas de Deux.
Verdy is the former Artistic Director of the Paris Opera Ballet and Boston Ballet, and she has taught and choreographed
